Cutter is a Mini for the Bamboo Dock, created by Pieter Diepenmaat and me for Wacom Europe. Users can test their pen skills by cutting up various objects and prove their pens to be mightier than the sword. Four different scenes allow users to slice through anything that moves, or doesn't. This Mini and a new Bamboo Dock are part of Wacom's renewed Bamboo line.
In order to win a development contract for a new living area near Almere, social housing corporation Vestia contracted Branson & Guevara to create a showcase for the development plan. The package consisted of an interactive website, a YouTube and a large amount of printed material. I was contracted to create illustration, icons and diagrams for a brochure, explaining aspects of the development plan.
Contracted by my old professor, I created a prototype for doing interactive multidimensional scaling. MDS is a statistical method, which can reveal similarities, or dissimilarities for that matter, between samples. Using a distance matrix, which results from a pairwise comparison, a solver distributes the samples. By letting the solver work continuously, it's easy to make this process interactive, like enabling users to interact with the visualization directly.
A tool for creativity, Mélange allows its users to create collages and tell stories using online media. Designers are often taught to create collages as a means to gain insights into design problems. As part of my Master's graduation project, I decided to expand on this, by designing and creating a tool, which allows users to tell stories and frame solution spaces using today's digital media. In essence, it's scrapbooking with online media.
As part of a large researchproject, I created Iris, an awareness toolkit for creative professionals. Before the advent of computers, creative professionals could easily share their work by putting things like drawings up on the wall, which in turn makes it easy for others to become aware of people's work. Iris is an attempt to re-enable this low-threshold form of communication, using the fact that most of people's work is done on computers nowadays.
Blue Screen is an application designed to show a playlist of videos, while being able to receive pictures and messages via bluetooth and show these in a ticker tape. Aside from researching and designing, the people at the ID-StudioLab form a very social group as well, with drinks on Friday afternoons and by engaging in social and playful activities. At one time, a few of us came up with the idea to host an evening at the student body's cafe with karaoke, retro gaming and Blue Screen.
